Very watchable and very beautiful but, at the end of the day, pretty lame. The first half features Jane Fonda as a troubled young Lillian Hellmann (look at her type! look at her smoke! look at her brood as she walks on the beach!) and the second half is a spy thriller. The spy thriller is similar to Zinnemann’s The Day of the Jackal mostly because it is a steady, slow-burn procedural. But then it hits you — it is all so proposterous. Fonda is smuggling something into Nazi Germany, and she has all these helpers along the way, guiding her from the train to the cafe and back. Why the hell didn’t these helpers just do it themselves? There’s one woman who is literally with her for almost every step of her journey! It’s very dramatic, but completely ridiculous! Then the movie gets all emotional at the end and, while I admit I liked the sets and locations, I could give two shits for any of the characters. How this won so many awards is beyond me.